ThisIsIt wrote:
SheTries wrote:
I caught my boss stealing from the company I worked for. He got prison time for that.
The best friend of one on my best friend's brother, a guy who I sort of knew because I grew up in a small town, was very quiet and unassuming, maybe on the spectrum to some degree. Anyway he was really close to my best friend's family. I don't know if he was an accountant or what, but got a job after college where he was the financial guy for a branch of a Southern States Farm supply store. He ended up getting caught stealing all kinds of money from them.
He had set up fake companies and had the company who's finances he was in charge of paying them. I don't know how he got caught, but he got prison time. One of my other best friends has a small engineering company and they caught a secretary stealing several thousand dollars from them.
You just reminded me, a guy I knew (he was the husband of one of my wife's friends/co-workers) got busted for doing the same thing at a small local electrical supply company he was in charge of finance for - fake companies, invoices, checks etc. Very active in his community- volunteer firefighter, local councilman, Republican committeeman, was a shoe-in to become a district judge, but (based on what I assumed he would be making at his job, and having a really good idea what his wife made because she worked with my wife) it always seemed like they were living way above their means.
Turns out they were - to the tune of $3m. Spent it on vacations, renting beach houses for the summer, and putting a ton of money into their relatively modest house. The theft caused 18 layoffs at the company he ripped off.
His wife divorced him right around when the shit hit the fan and claimed to have had no knowledge of his crime, but I'd be surprised if she couldn't have seen the discrepancy between their incomes and their spending/lifestyle.
I think he got 4-11 years, not sure how much of that he actually served.